Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Open enrollment with an early-phase pipeline tilt

According to ClinicalTrials.gov-derived indexes, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sits in the top decile of US sponsors by registered trial count (#42 of 15,742 sponsors by registered trial count).

781 total trials 112 currently recruiting 449 completed early-phase tilt top decile by trial count

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: 781 sponsored US clinical trials, 112 recruiting.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sponsors 781 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 112 of them currently recruiting, and 449 completed. 15 of these trials are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 492 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most-studied condition in this pipeline is Breast Cancer, with 53 trials.

Top-decile sponsor footprint

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ranks in the top decile of sponsors by registered trial count (#42 of 15,742 sponsors by registered trial count). Volume at this scale usually reflects a long institutional pipeline, read phase tilt and therapeutic areas below before treating it as current-year activity.

Trial completion reliability score

F 49/100

449 of 537 decided trials (Completed vs. Terminated on ClinicalTrials.gov) reached their planned completion (83.6%), vs. national p10 68.4% / p90 100% among 1,234 sponsors with at least 10 decided trials. Still-open trials (Recruiting, Active-not-recruiting, Not-yet-recruiting) are excluded since they have not reached an outcome yet.

Open and recent trials

781 total, page 13 of 16

COMPLETED Phase 2

ALL Adult Consortium Trial: Adult ALL Trial

NCT00476190

COMPLETED Phase 2

Docetaxel in Combination With Zactima (ZD6474) in Patients With Locally Advanced Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the the Head and Neck

NCT00459043

COMPLETED Phase 1

Epstein-Barr Virus-Specific Immunotherapy for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

NCT00431210

COMPLETED NA

Personal Patient Profile Prostate (P4) Randomized, Multisite Trial

NCT00692653

COMPLETED Phase 1

ZD6474, Cetuximab, and Irinotecan in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

NCT00436072

COMPLETED Phase 1

Reduced Intensity Stem Cell Transplantation for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Followed by Vaccination

NCT00442130

COMPLETED Phase 1

C-TPF in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Locally Advanced Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck

NCT00402545

COMPLETED Phase 2

RAD001 in Previously Treated Patients With Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer

NCT00409292

COMPLETED NA

Skin Cancer Screening and Education at Beaches

NCT00894855

COMPLETED Phase 2

Erlotinib in Women With Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Vulvar

NCT00476476

COMPLETED NA

Low-Dose Chest Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer in Survivors of Hodgkin's Disease

NCT00601146

COMPLETED Phase 1

Banking of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Tumor Cells for Vaccine Generation

NCT00428233

COMPLETED Early Phase 1

Melatonin Versus Placebo in Breast Cancer

NCT01805089

COMPLETED Phase 2

Randomized Study of Docetaxel +/- Vandetanib in Metastatic TCC

NCT00880334

COMPLETED Phase 1

Rituximab for Prevention of Chronic GVHD

NCT00379587

COMPLETED Phase 2

Docetaxel, Cisplatin, Irinotecan and Bevacizumab (TPCA) in Metastatic Esophageal and Gastric Cancer

NCT00394433

COMPLETED Phase 2

Perifosine in Patients With Relapsed/Refractory Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia

NCT00422656

TERMINATED Phase 2

Oxaliplatin, Gemcitabine and Bevacizumab in Women With Recurrent Mullerian Carcinoma

NCT00418093

COMPLETED Phase 2

Combination Bortezomib and Rituximab in Patients With Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia (WM)

NCT00422799

COMPLETED NA

Exercise Intervention in Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer

NCT00405782

COMPLETED Phase 2

Bortezomib, Lenalidomide, and Dexamethasone Combination Therapy for Patients With Relapsed or Relapsed and Refractory Multiple Myeloma

NCT00378209

COMPLETED Phase 1

Bortezomib Plus Tacrolimus and Methotrexate to Prevent Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) After Mismatched Allogeneic Non-Myeloablative Blood Stem Cell Transplantation

NCT00369226

COMPLETED Phase 2

Oxaliplatin and Gemcitabine Followed by Radiation Therapy in the Management of Mixed Mullerian Tumors of the Uterus

NCT00476086

COMPLETED Phase 2

Imatinib in Patients With Mucosal or Acral/Lentiginous Melanoma

NCT00424515

TERMINATED Phase 2

Ph II CHOP+Velcade in Mediastinal LBCL

NCT00361621

COMPLETED NA

Darbepoetin Alfa (Aranesp) Following Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation

NCT00355407

COMPLETED NA

A Pilot Weight Control Intervention at HPHC

NCT00644202

COMPLETED Phase 2

Bevacizumab and Carboplatin/Paclitaxel and Radiation in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

NCT00578149

COMPLETED Phase 1

Weekly Subcutaneous Alemtuzumab and Rituximab for Relapsed CLL

NCT00330252

TERMINATED Phase 1

Trial of PTK787/ZK 222584 Plus Paclitaxel

NCT00358163

COMPLETED

Young Women Diagnosed With Early Stage Ovarian Cancer: A Focus on Fertility Issues and Sexual Function

NCT00525460

TERMINATED Phase 2

Carboplatin and Paclitaxel in Elderly Women With Newly Diagnosed Ovarian, Peritoneal, or Fallopian Cancer

NCT00322881

COMPLETED Phase 1

Vaccination With Autologous Breast Cancer Cells Engineered to Secrete Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF) in Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients

NCT00317603

COMPLETED Phase 1

Autologous Vaccination With Lethally Irradiated, Autologous Breast Cancer Cells Engineered to Secrete GM-CSF in Women With Operable Breast Cancer

NCT00880464

COMPLETED Phase 2

Tacrolimus and Sirolimus as Prophylaxis After Allogenic Non-myeloablative Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation

NCT00282282

COMPLETED Phase 2

Rapamycin FOR Kidney Angiomyolipomas

NCT00126672

COMPLETED Phase 2

Pemetrexed in Patients With Advanced Neuroendocrine Tumors

NCT00424723

COMPLETED Phase 1

The Use of RAD001 With Docetaxel in the Treatment of Metastatic, Androgen Independent Prostate Cancer

NCT00459186

COMPLETED Phase 2

Study of the Combination of Bortezomib, Dexamethasone, and Rituximab in Patients With Waldenstroms Macroglobulinemia

NCT00250926

COMPLETED Phase 1

Vaccine Therapy and Imatinib Mesylate in Treating Patients With Chronic Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

NCT00301093

COMPLETED Phase 1

Docetaxel and PTK787 in Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients and Gynecological Cancer Patients

NCT00268918

COMPLETED NA

A Web Site and Print Materials Intervention for Smoking Intervention for Childhood and Young Adult Cancer Survivors

NCT00588107

COMPLETED Phase 2

Study of Lenalidomide and XRT in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma Multiforme

NCT00165477

COMPLETED NA

CD8+ T Cell Depletion for GVHD Prophylaxis After Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation

NCT00333190

COMPLETED Phase 2

Carboplatin and Pemetrexed in Recurrent Platinum Sensitive Ovarian Cancer

NCT00230542

COMPLETED Phase 2

Sildenafil Citrate in Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia

NCT00165295

COMPLETED Phase 2

Study of Iressa in Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myelogenous Leukemia

NCT00130702

COMPLETED Phase 2

Use of Cetuximab for Unresectable or Metastatic Esophageal and Gastric Cancer

NCT00130689

COMPLETED NA

Study Evaluating the Correlation Between C-11 Acetate Uptake and Retention as Measured by PET and FAS in Prostate Cancer

NCT00139191

COMPLETED

Breast MRI Screening in Women Treated With Mediastinal Irradiation for Hodgkin's Disease

NCT00165412

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Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 181
Phase 2 311
Phase 3 14
Phase 4 1

What is open in the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute pipeline

112 recruiting of 781 indexed (14% open); 449 completed (57%).

Phase mix: 15 late (III/IV) vs 492 early (I/II) (early-phase heavy).

Top condition: Breast Cancer (53 trials), 9 others listed.

How open-pipeline share is computed

Recruiting share is recruiting_count divided by trial_count for this sponsor in the public registry export. Status can change between pulls; treat the figure as a research-attention snapshot, not product availability.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: open-pipeline peers nationwide

Peers matched on 781 registered trials and 14% open enrollment, not the therapeutic-area sidebar.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sits at or above the median trial volume and below the median recruiting share among these 9 nationwide peers -- the two do not always move together. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (2026-08-08 snapshot). 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Total trials (X) and Recruiting share (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Higher volume & more openFocused & more openHigher volume, mostly closedSmaller & mostly closed 02004006008001,000 14%16%18%20%22% Total trials Recruiting share Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of ChicagoMedical University of South CarolinaUniversity of UtahThe Cleveland ClinicAcademic and Community Cancer Research UnitedAdaptive BiotechnologiesAgelessRx
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sits at or above the median trial volume and below the median recruiting share among these 9 nationwide peers -- the two do not always move together. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (2026-08-08 snapshot).

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sits at or above the median trial volume and below the median recruiting share among these 9 nationwide peers -- the two do not always move together.

Sponsors near 781 trials (± recruiting share)

Sponsors near 14% open enrollment (± trial volume)

What to do with this Dana-Farber Cancer Institute page

781 registered trials is a research-attention snapshot, not an endorsement of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute or any single study.

  • 112 of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's trials are currently recruiting, check each one's own eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
  • Breast Cancer is the condition Dana-Farber Cancer Institute studies most, compare against other sponsors active in the same condition before evaluating a specific study. See Breast Cancer trials
  • Bring the specific trial ID (NCT number) to your own doctor before enrolling, this page is a directory, not medical guidance. Read the trial-finding guide

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute pipeline card: 781 registered trials from official public datasets. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.